The European Space Agency's JUICE mission pointed its instruments at 3I/ATLAS. This body, only the third of its kind ever detected, is currently leaving our Solar System after passing through it. To ...
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One rare comet has done two jobs at once: it has widened the scientific map of how other planetary systems form, and it has exposed how dependent that science remains on a clear, trackable sky. Comet ...
NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...
Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...
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Spread the loveIn an exciting astronomical event, a newly discovered asteroid, designated as 2026 EG1, is set to make a close approach to Earth on the evening of March 12, 2026. This space rock, ...
The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...
NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.
In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...
Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...